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Press Release Issued by the Department of State, May 25, 1943
The inaugural session of the Mexican-United States commission of experts to formulate a program for economic cooperation between the two Governments, took place this afternoon in the office of the Under Secretary of Commerce, the Honorable Wayne C. Taylor. The Mexican Ambassador, His Excellency Francisco Castillo Nájera, attended and opened the inaugural session.
[Page 418]The Mexican delegates are Mr. Evaristo Araiza, General Manager of the Monterrey Steel Works, Monterrey, Mexico, and Mr. Valentin R. Garfías, a well-known mining engineer. Representing the United States are the Honorable Wayne C. Taylor, Under Secretary of Commerce, and Dr. Harry White, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury. The secretaries to the respective delegations are Dr. Jesus Silva Herzog of the Mexican Ministry of Finance, and Dr. Augustus Maffry of the United States Department of Commerce.
The joint commission, assisted by the technical advisers from the interested agencies of their respective Governments, will meet from time to time from this date on. It is contemplated that after a number of sessions here in Washington the experts and their advisers will proceed to Mexico for a period of time, returning to Washington to terminate their work. The thirty-day period in which the experts are to complete their work will begin from the inaugural session today.